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Carla Hillerns on Thoughtful Tokens of Appreciation to Encourage Study Participation

3 Comments / Uncategorized / September 19, 2013 September 19, 2013

Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …

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CP Week: Alison Baxter on Evaluation and Research Activities With Youth: How Incentives Make a Difference (To Youth and Evaluators)

Greetings State-side colleagues! My name is Alison Baxter and I have the privilege of being an internal evaluator with Pathways to Education Lawrence Heights in Toronto, a holistic after school program for high school students who live in a low income community. My experience has been that engaging youth in evaluation activities is not always …

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Judy Savageau on The IRB Process in Human Subject Research

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / May 30, 2012 May 21, 2012

Hello! I’m Judy Savageau, faculty, researcher, and IRB representative for the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to bring attention to the need for us to be mindful that our stakeholder groups are often ‘subjects’ in our evaluation research. Why are there ethical concerns? Like research, evaluation involves human subjects. …

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